Fabulous Geek

So, I’ve been rather silent here. Then again, I haven’t had much to discuss.

I’ve been working quite steadily, doing freelance gigs, and working for the occasional theatre company.

I was able to work with Georgia Shakespeare Festival on a show this fall, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I look forward to working with them again in the future.

I also Had the opportunity to help build a set for Theatre du Reve’s production of The Red Balloon. This was a very educational experience and one I won’t forget for a while.

For those of you wondering (are there any of you? I can’t tell.) my Palm Pre Plus finally kicked it to the degree that I felt very compelled to get a new phone. The speaker died, it split in half, and it was generally rather slow. After thinking long and hard, and examining my usage habits, I came to realize that phones in my possession must not have any moving parts (i.e. a sliding keyboard, a flipping out keyboard/keypad, anything swivelly, etc). I then set out looking at phones that had the features I wanted (internet, email, physical keyboard, and preferably mobile hotspot) and discovered I would have to devote myself to the cult of crackberry, or get the Motorola Droid Pro. I chose the latter since the iPhone had not yet come out for Verizon (which still lacks a physical keyboard and thereby is disqualified anyway) and it had the mobile hotspot feature, which the blackberries all seem to lack. I’ve had it for 2 months now, and with the recent port of Word with Friends to android (username: fimion), my experience with this phone has been very pleasant, though I do miss my webOS card switching.

I have been slowly pruning down my friends list on facebook. I was up somewhere in the mid 300′s and have gotten it down to 224ish. I shall continue to work at this bit by bit, because I don’t feel that I need to be facebook friends with everyone I’ve ever met. There’s only a few I see regularly and that are actually close to me, and if they need to know something, they will be told.

I think that’s all for now. Need to finish a few things. Get things in order.

So, i’ve been playing with the wifi mobile hotspot feature on my palm pre in the car to play pandora through my ipod touch since my car stereo only has an ipod input (as opposed to a standard headphone jack). I’m trying to figure out the best way to make it stream consistantly. This has been a challenge, and I don’t know why. Sometimes it’s seamless and most of the time it’s been incredibly jerky. My guess is that the bottleneck is happening somewhere within my pre since while pandora on my touch can be choppy while pandora on my pre will be smooth. Need to find a way to measure this…

I’m currently posting this from my new phone. I think this phone should last me quite some time.

I played with friends this evening. A great way to celebrate my birthday.

I have just successfully fixed my broken down strum on my rockband guitar, and reinforced my up strum too.